Medium Term Demand Planner

Microsoft; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 76,800 - 151,900; Full time

Job summary

A global technology company is seeking a Medium Term Demand Planner to join its expanding Cloud Supply Chain organization. The ideal candidate will collaborate with demand planners and manage projects to ensure effective supply chain operations. Qualifications include a relevant bachelor's degree and at least 2 years of experience in supply chain or planning roles. This role offers a competitive salary range of USD $76,800 - $151,900 annually and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field and 2+ years’ experience in supply chain or related areas.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security requirements.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with demand planners to understand capacity plans.
• Develop understanding and provide plan explicability to execution teams.
• Track and project manage special decommission projects.
• Apply advanced analytics for strategic decisions.
• Support workshops for strategic improvement projects.
• Project manage process improvements with stakeholders.

Job description

Overview

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Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization enables the hardware infrastructure for growth including AI. CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud and AI capabilities at scale. The CSCP organization manages plan, source, make, deliver, as well as supportability (spares), sustainability, and decommissioning of datacenter assets worldwide. We support over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is supported by more than 300 datacenters around the world, delivering services to more than 1 billion customers in 90+ countries.

Microsoft Cloud Planning (MCP) is the central planning function within CSCP focused on forecasting, demand planning, and supply planning for all Microsoft Cloud services and associated hardware. This directly impacts the success of Microsoft’s cloud business.

Our mission is to empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We value respect, integrity, accountability, and a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with demand planners in different resource types to understand a capacity plan that meets customer needs, while maintaining compliance to supply and execution policies, throughput capacities and contractual requirements.
• Develop deep understanding and provide plan explicability to the end-to-end execution teams.
• Own tracking and project management for special decommission projects across stakeholders.
• Apply advanced analytics toward rich insights and key financial and strategic decisions.
• Support workshops for strategic improvement projects to drive alignment and close gaps in the midterm planning process.
• Project manage process improvements and transformations with stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology (IT), Business, Operations, Finance, Accounting, Data Science, or related field AND 2+ years’ experience in supply chain, inventory management or sales operations, preferably in planning (demand/supply/forecasting), cloud industry experience, infrastructure, data science, and/or channel management experience OR equivalent experience.
• 2 years of supply chain experience in planning, forecasting, designing or analyzing supply chain challenges.

Other Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements. This includes the Microsoft Cloud Background Check, which must be passed upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience with cross-functional coordination, including partnering with data scientists, developers, and program managers to drive continual improvement.
• Generating clarity: align everyone on the same plan with constant communication and reduce ambiguity.
• Metrics and analytics: identify themes and insights from data; define and measure KPI to drive decision making.
• Results: ability to translate strategic thinking into action and deliver capacity availability at the right cost with minimal surprises.
• Collaboration: strong collaboration and negotiation to achieve win/win solutions.
• Experience working with complex enterprise data sets and statistics, including modeling concepts.
• Technical fluency with cloud concepts, large-scale platforms, distributed services, hardware, and data centers.
• Storytelling skills to demonstrate project needs, progress, and impacts.

Demand Planning IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $76,800 - $151,900 per year. A different range applies to specific locations (San Francisco Bay Area and NYC metro area): USD $100,800 - $168,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. See pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 4, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation during the application process, learn more about requesting accommodations.

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